Why did Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt meet in Washington, DC, shortly after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

Churchill traveled to Washington soon after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and he and Roosevelt met at the Arcadia Conference. The United States had entered the war, so they worked out an overall Allied strategy, including prioritizing the defeat of Germany while coordinating the war against Japan. They were not meeting to decide surrender terms, which came much later.

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